Smoky Tower, coal #2 microflora (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (54.3° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.3° N, 92.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paskapoo Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• Previously assigned Wapiti Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; coal

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: D. C. Christophel. 1976. Fossil floras of the Smoky Tower locality, Alberta, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 157(1-4):1-43 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22835: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 27.06.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
 Anthophyta -
 Radiatopses -
Coniferophytatae indet.
"Bisaccate grains"
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites sp. Ibrahim 1933
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Engelhardtioidites sp." = Momipites
"Engelhardtioidites sp." = Momipites Wodehouse 1933
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites sp. Couper 1953